Art, Symbol & Imagination
Cippus of Horus on Crocodiles
A frontal child figure stands above crocodiles on a rounded-top relief filled with animals and carved signs. The book identifies the object as a cippus of Horus and credits W. A. Mansell and Co. for its photograph. Unlike the isolated deity statuettes elsewhere in the volume, this relief makes the central figure part of a dense, continuous field of creatures and inscriptions.
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Ancient Egyptian makers (unrecorded); historical photographs. "Cippus of Horus on Crocodiles" [editorial title]. In Myths and Legends of Ancient Egypt, Lewis Spence. September 1923 Harrap reprint; first published August 1913, 1923, George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd.. Source scan leaf 131. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/egypt-object-131
Source details
Editorial title and description. Source details from the Library catalogue.
Historical photograph of an ancient object; printed caption reviewed. Ancient maker unrecorded. Photographer credit recorded individually where printed. Orientation corrected where necessary; no retouching or reconstructed detail.
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Ancient Egyptian makers (unrecorded); historical photographs. Cippus of Horus on Crocodiles. Myths and Legends of Ancient Egypt. Scan leaf 131. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/egypt-object-131